Letters of Junius [2 Volumes Complete, 1794] Antique Book Set 1st Ed Thus

Letters of Junius [2 Volumes Complete, 1794] Antique Book Set 1st Ed Thus

London: T. Bensley for Vernor and Hood, 1794. 1st edition thus. 225+259 pages plus index. Leather covers with gilt detail on spines. Wear to leather covers. Front and back covers of Volume II are DETACHED. Marginalia on title pages. Slight wave to pages. Some foxing present.

The Junius letters, which appeared anonymously in The Public Advertiser between 1769 and 1792, comprise a series of attacks on prominent figures of the government. Though authorship of the letters has never been firmly established, most think they were written by Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818). 

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